3. Bargaining — Charles Krauthammer offers the amnesty olive branch (sorry, couldn’t find an embed–Larison’s comments here). Laura Ingraham cautions Republicans not to sell out. Last night on O’Reilly she discussed the danger of a bidding war for which party could pander to Latinos the most. Which is to say, she completely misses the point:

4. Depression –Ann Coulter, November 7

5. Acceptance — Well, I guess that hasn’t really happened yet. But David Frum has some good thoughts on Morning Joe today about how conservatives have been “fleeced, exploited, and lied to.”

Friedersdorf and Frum are wrong. Movement conservatives got exactly what they wanted. They clapped loudly throughout George Bush’s term, then decided that the most centrist postwar Democratic president was actually a secret fascist socialist Muslim foreigner.

They turn to politics for entertainment, the same way I turn to the NFL. They don’t need to change a thing.